HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-05-05, Page 3Lubricaticzi is First Essential in Car • long enough to see if the oil is flowing.
Go over the gauge to make certain;
that the fault is not there instead of
in the oiling system. Note the exhaust
smoke. It s hpuld have a slight bluish
tinge when the engine is accelerated.'
If the tinge does not appear you can
Abe satisfied that the engine is not re-
ceiving enough oil. But above all deo
not run the engine unleas you are sure
that the oiling system is working.
Make . it a habit to go over the car
periodically. This is the custom of
those expert few who always have
their cars ready for an emergency.
Remember that the neglect to lubri-
Bate all • the working•pavl's is a "sin
of omission."
, Operation. -
A xtoinobile owners should do every-
thing. to nrovicle thorough and efficient
lubrication. Just imagine trying to
run the world's work without lubricae
tient. The result would be a complete
wreck. Naturally; proper lubrication
of an automobile is absolutely neces-
sary. In fact, more of an essential
than gasoline, The only caution re-
quired is to use good judgment in se-
lecting the particular grade for your
car.
The, grade of oil selected should not
be too heavy or too light. The heavier
or thicker oils retain considerable
carbon that is apt to accumulate on
the pistons, valves and cylinder walls.
Too Iight a grade has much of the
carbon extracted and may lack the
viscosity neeessary for your particu-
lar engine.
Manufacturers .a:s a rule are eager
to advise motorists as to the proper
grade of oil to use in their engines, as
their experience with the problem of
correct engine lubrication has been
gained 'by years of exhaustive tests.
In breaking in a new car all the
parts must be well oiled to start them
on the way . for the most efficient
work. Then the good work, once
started, should be continued regularly.
Soine of the best and well known
lubricants are put up in sealed con-
tainers. These brands are.scientifical-
ly graded for the particular purpose
for which they are prepared.
The experienced motorist never neg-
lects to look over his oil and grease
cups every day to be sure that they
are filled and operating. When the oil
indicator on the dash ceases to show
that the oil is being fed—stop! Some
indicators are dials with hands which
indicate the pressure. If no pressure'
is indicated then. the pump is not
workings„„ The feed to the pump is
clogged or the outlet from it to the
pipe, the pressure of which the gauge
indicates, is broken or leaking. Other
indicators show that the oil is feeding
by a drip in a glass sightfeed. If no
oil drips then it is likely for one of
the reasons mentioned in the fore-
going that no oil is being fed to the
parts that should receive it.,
Another type of indicator is in the
form of a small rod whose movement
up and down or in and out indicates
the passage of oil. Others show the
level in the crank case. Whatever
kind .the gauge is, the first thing to do
when it ceases to show any further
feed is to stop the engine and go care-
fully over the whole system. ” First
.see if there is the required amount of
oil in the reservoir. Then see if the
pump, provided there is one, is work-
ing 'and'receiving a supply of oil from
the strainer. Find one of the outlets
Practical Paragraphs.
Snare ` Latch --In battery ignition
systems there is usually employed a
notched rotor against which presses
the latch c,i• tripper with short springs
attached. When this latch becomes
worn the entire system will fail to op-
erate p'i'operly and it is a wise pre
caution to carry a spare latch in the'
Wel box. It is hot difficult to remove'
and replace this latch, which fits in'
but one way, so that there is no danger
of placing it wrong.
Spring. Shackle ---Tho slzecldes of •
truck springs or i P ,gers asthey are
frequently called, must be kept care
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fully Iubricated. Rust often clogs up
the small vents and keeps the oil from
performing its function. The use of a
little kerosene at intervals will tend
to keep these'oi1 holes open. This is a small world and is getting
Locking the Car—Many modern ears very full of people. • •
are fitted with a battery ignition sys- "The population of the globe is at
tem, in which the distributer arm is present about seventeen hundred mil -
removable. By removing this arm the lions, and it is increasing at the rate
car owner makes it possible to steal of fourteen millions annually. The
his vehicle only by towing it away or white race is increasing much faster
by fitting another distributing arm. than the yellow or black.
The arm may be removed simply by China's population, upward of three
unclasping the distributer cover to hundred million, is virtually stationary.
which the wires are attached. It usu- in point of numbers. The same may
ally happens that there is only one be said of the population of India,
way in which this arm will fit, so that which aproaches the four hundred mil-
lion mark.
The reason why those populations
show no tendency to increase is simp-
ly that they have reached the limit of
available food supply. When the
craps in a given year fall even slightly
below the normal average, the result
could be done, as ammonia eventually
is wide-spreadfamine, bringing ,star-
vation'to millions.
destroys the finish. Unfortunately the Before very long there will be a
ammonia gives a little temporary bril- similar state of affairs in all habitable
Hance to the finish, but in the long run parts of the world. Already Europe is
it ruins it. In fact, ear manufacturers
recommend that no car be kept in a overpopulated, and er people are mi -
stable orgrating to other continents.pee
barn, as the ammonia from-
Earth Becoming T oo Rill of People
there need be no worry about replace-
ment.
Use of . Ammonia—There used to be
a common practice of trying to
brighten up the finish of the hood by
the use on it of a 'solution of ammonia.
This is about the worst thing that
manure gradually destroys the en-
amelled surface.
Seat. Covers—Seat covers may usu-
ally be cleaned very well with a non -
alkaline soap and warm water. The
best way to carry out this job is to
take the covers off and give them a
of the feed and run the engine just good scrubbing on the board.
The Smallest Republic.
religion in peace. Each built a little
church, and the fame of the two com-
The Republic of San Marino, tucked munities, ever ready to welcome the
away in the .hills of north-eastern tired and oppressed, spread so that a Every Detail of Domestic Life
Italy, has an area of thirty-eight wealthy Roman matron, the owner of in Buckingham Palace Re -
square miles and a population of not the mountain on wlziclz Marino hack
quite 11,000 The capital city of San set up his little colony, when she em ceives Her Attention.
Marino is perched on the mountain- braced Christianity, gave it to Marino. is to ten in the morning,
top, and is approached by only one When he died Marino left injunc- It a quarter
and the housekeeper at the morning, steep, almost precipitous road. tion to his followers to regard ever as Palace has entered her "office," one of
For sixteen centuries San Marino the twa great essentials of life, peace the three apartments allotted to her
has maintained its independence, al -and liberty, an injunction they have-Palace
sole use. On a writing -table are a
though Italy entirely surrounds it. obeyed even to the present day, number of papers and a memoranda
The story of the founding of the re- Though, officially, San Marino was tablet. On the latter are written some
public goes back to the fourth century, neutral, she was represented in the notes concerning the day's work. One
when two stone -cutters Marino and Italian,Army by eleven of her sons,' of the notes reads, "The Queen at
Leo—crossed the Adriatic from Dal- and the little people maintained a"fine-' o'clock." Another, "Interview
matia in order that they might bringl r- hospitaleleven ten." ,
y e tS replacing wtat thentItalian Ella at ten:'
help to the enslaved Christians whom front, with gallant enthiusz- The latter refers to the engaging of
a pagan emperor was employing to asm the one that was wiped "out in
1917. a new housemaid at the Palace. The
build the walls of Rimini.
When the walls of Rimini were girl's name hats been on the waiting-
•�' list for the past four years, It was
finished the two retired to the tops of
the neighboring peaks, -taking with Four churches at least in the City entered on the list when she was fla
them a little band of followers, and of London occupy sites which have teen; she is the ' daughter of an em -
there they found sufficient to satisfy been valued at more than half a mil- ployee on the Sandringham estate. It
their frugal wants; and practised their lion each. may be mentioned that all the ser-
vants in Royal employ are the sons
or daughters of those who- re, or have
been, in Royal employ.
A girl seeking to enter Royal ser
vice usually has her name entered on
QUEEN MARY'S
HOUSEKEEPER
A DAY IN HER LIFE IS
HERE DESCRIBED.
Going Belo w for Heat
The great problem of mankind's fu-
ture seems to be that of fuel supply.
What is going to become of our civili-
zation when oil and coal are no longer
ecen,._.i•,"ily av'ails.ble?
Sir Charles Parsons, the famous Bri-
tish engineer and inventor of the
steam turbine foe ships, contends that
it is practicable to derive unlimited.
energy from the bowels of the planet
by digging for it. •
Hep p rb ores that a hole twelve miles
p
deep be .sunk into the earth, to tap
the furnace that is down below. Ac-
e. cording to hie reckoning, the opera-
tion would take thirty years and
would cost about $25,000•,00(1.
One advantage of this scheme would
be that the heat conduit could be 10-
sated wherever it might seem' most.
desirable;- that is, at or near a great
industrial centre, where the energy
Would be available for running the
Machinery' of factories and -the heat
Mg and lighting of cities,' In' discus-
eizig this idea,• the Popular Science
Alonthly calls attention to the fact
that, oil an average, temperature rises
One degree for every slaty feet of des-
d.+enit through thecrust of the earth.
It Is thoeght: that probably the rise
Is unlfone for a vertical distance of
. thirty miles, but at greater depths re -
Wafts constant at soinetbing like 2,700
degrees Fabreizlleity
The earth's heat however, is uneven- the waiting-list whoa she is fifteen,
ly distributed, Thus a visitor in the Yel- and gets summoned to enter the Royal,
lowstone Park is struck by the obvi- service, as._,a rale, when She is nine-
ous fact that a literal hell is raging teen. Punctually at ten o'clock: the
not many feet below the surface of the girl enters the house -keeper's office.
ground. It would not be very difficult Engaged on Probation,
to tap the sources of heat in that re- She came up from Sandringham -the
gion and to turn the energy to prac- previous evening, and slept at the
tical use, if only it could be applied Palace. She is elisions to enter the
for industrial purposes in the neigh- Royal service at Buckingham Palace coiupany with the chief housemaid,
boyhood. at once, and to escape the usual six Who is responsible for seeing that the
That this notion is mot merely the- months' training at Windsor Castle. rooms are properly dont takes an
Prof. E. M. East is quoted as saying
that "if the rate of increase in the
population of the United States dur-
ing the nineteenth century shall con-
tinue, within the lifetime of grand-
children of persons now living this
country will contain more than a bil-
lio inhabitants.
It is a fact easily proved, however,
that the United States is not capable
of maintaining a population of more
than half a billion. The controllingfk
factor is water supply—water being
the fundamental element upon which
human subsistence and survival de-
pend. If the United States had twice
as•:niuch rainfall, properly distributed,
her territory cou'l'd support twice as
many people.
In the meantime, while the human
population of the globe is increasing
more rapidly than ever before, the
deserts on all continents are steadily
spreading, the capacity of the planet
to support life being thereby corres-
pondingly reduced.
the, kitchens overnight. These ac
e'eS4atsleiget details Kell, the ex
tore for' the: past`ino`i thi oh food'
supplies and household commodities—
such hs soap, candles, dusters, etc.
The Queen is to go into the accounts
'this morning. The housekeeper rises
as the Queen enters, 'shakes hands
with her, bidding her a smiling "good -
morning." The housekeeper has been
in the Royal employ for over twenty
years, and stands in the highest re-
gard of both the Bing and Queen,
The Queen then takes a seat at the
writing -table, and begins her examina-
tion
xamination of the accounts. By this monthly
scrutiny of the accounts, conducted as
carefully as they would be by any
professional accountant, her Majesty,
since the outbreak of war, has kept
the household expenditure from rising
more than eighty per cent. on -the Pre-
war expenditure.
Queen Mary as Housewife.
The economies affected include the
reduction of the pre-war dinner menus
consisting usually of fourteen courses,
to ',ones never exceeding flue courses.
Drastic economies in other directions
were also made by the Queen, until
all unnecessary expenditure had been
entirely eliminated.
After an hour's examination of the
accounts, her Majesty passes them
without question. She remains talk-
ing to the housekeeper on various mat-
ters-conn•ectecl with the management
of the household, and informs the
housekeeper of a possible visit in the
near future from a foreign royalty to
Palace, and discusses the arrange-
ments that will have to be made for
the reception of the Royal guests.
The interview between the Queen
and the housekeeper enols at twelve-
thirty, and the latter then at once pro-
ceeds to make her morning inspection
of various rooms •that the housemaids
have been engaged in doing up since
nine o'clock; the inspection, made in
,r..
oretical may be judged from observa- She has already been well tra Hour.
tion of certain doings hi the vicinity her mother, :and the housekeeper, af- The housekeeper gives the chief
of ILardarello, in Italy, where, if any- ter a short conversation, decides to housemaid directions concerning al-
bodg wants -to run an engine, he has allow her to begin her career in. Royal terations in the arrangement of some
simply to tap the earth for steam. To- service et the Palace. of the furniture in the King's writing=
day in that locality mare than 10,000 "You must regard yourself,"says : 100112 and the' Princess Mary's boticloir
horsepower from this Source is con- • the housekeeper, "as a probationer for that his Majesty and the Princess:de-
sire
y.
sire to have made when the Court
leaves London,
At half -past one the housekeeper re-
turns to her room, presses "i n electric
bell, and a few minutes later her din-
Week dresses, and Half a dozen caps •ner is brought in, At half -past two
and, aprons, enters her name in thei- work. big
., she is again at z o She has a bid
housemaid stall -both., anti the girt correspondence to attend to; among
finds herself. a probationer in the her letters is one from Princess Mary,
slating that slie would like to be pre-
sent at the next tett given by the
housekeeper ,t'o sohte of the znaidser,.
yenta.
tired by
verted into electricity. for industrial' three months, but I have not the least
use doubt that you will prove suitable for
The sinking of a hole twelve utiles service here."
Seep would be attended with. impute The liouselteeper then gives her an
tant engineering difficulties. The tre- order for one print dress and two
meedous rock lzresszlre would tend to
crumble the Bides of the shaft.'Air
pressure, doubled every three miles,
would necessitate airlocks. But Sir
Charles Parsons believes that these Royal service at salary of 8175 per
obstacles could lie overcome; and, as ' annuim
a means of reducing the terrific heat Tile girl ti.lcee her departure from
that would be encountered, . he sug-
the ofilr.e, and the housekeeper gets
gests a ccolint apparatus with brine
Dy Products o f Big Sawmills
Less Man OU ;Per cent. of the tree
reaches the final consumer .of wood.
bort of the loss le at the sawmill, and
is unavoidable, being incident to vari-
ous ateps In the process of converting
logs into lumber,
There is a great waste also in small
stuff that Is thrown away because
there Is no ready market for it. Wood
10 getting mighty precious nowadays,
and, to minimize loss of his kind, the
United States Forest Service has or-
ganized a "wood waste exchange,"
through which users of what would
otherwise be discarded refuse are put
into: touch with concerns that are able
and glad to sell it..
A manufacturer of school furniture
in. Michigan was formerly accustomed
to burn 1000 board feet of sugar maple
daily as firewood. Nowbettisposes of
it to a maker of serubbing brushes.
A company in Mississippi that
makes rims for automobileiwheels has
large quantities of scrap hickory left
over. It used to burn the stuff as fuel,
but now it sold to a tool -handle fac-
tory in Connecticut, ~
A manufacturer of beekeepers'sup-
plies ° in Wisconsin, using basswood
and white pine, now cuts its, waste" to
small sizes for a toymaker iu Massa-
chusetts.
A wagon plant in Massachusetts
sells its waste beech, birch and maple
to a manufacurer of stepladders, cut
to size and ready for use.
A manufacturer of bathroom cabi-
nets and other plumbers' woodwork
in New York is able to get his ma-
terial cheaply in specified sizes from
a sawmill which formerly threw it
away ,at; scrap. A clo•ckmalter
Rhode Island bas adopted prptltably'
the same idea,
An Arksas"s
amconcern engaged in
the production of oak flooring used to
throw away immense quantities of
sawdust. Now it sells forty toxic a.
month of the .stuff' to a manufacturer
of artiiiciiil wood flooring.
Sawdust is no longer properly a
waste product. A Philadelphia firm re-
quires twenty-four tons of it per month
for snaking fuel briquettes. Fine saw-
dust of -white pine, called "brood flour,
if used In the mazi.nfaclure of linol-
eum, and also as "dope" for dynamite.
A big woodworking establishment in
New York sells its waste white oak
and sugar maple, cut to suitable size,
to a concern that maker furniture
knobs.
Wood that formerly went to waste
is now the main reliance for the manu-
facture of a vast number of small ar-
ticles which used to be cut from whole
lumber—such, for Instance, as toys,
dolls, dumb -bells, lemon squeezers,
shoe lasts, wooden spoons and wooden
shoes. More than 75,000 pales of
wooden shoes are made annually in
Michigan and Wisconsin from scrap
stuff which the sawmills furnish.
These wooden shoes are worn most-
ly by Swedes and Germans. In the
"muck country" of Michigan, where
celery is grown, they are a favorite
footgear among the farming popula-
latlon and likewise in the cranberry
bogs of Wisconsin. Iron workers,
obliged to stand on hot floors, wear
wooden shoes.
take place twice a month. The house-
keeper sends a -note to the Princess,
thanking her for her letter, and in-
forming her of the date of the next
tea.
There are a. number of letters from
different tradespeople to be attended
to, and the housekeeper is kept busy
answering them until four o'clock.
Then comes tea, and from five o'clock
to six the 'housekeeper has interviews
with those of the maidservants who
may desire to see her on any special
matter, such as a request for an extra
day "off," or permission to stay out
beyond ten o'clock to go to a theatre
or some entertainment.
From six to eight o'clock the house-
keeper" is free to attend to her private
affairs, and then comes supper, To-
night the housekeeper is to be the
guest of the maidservants in the ser-
vants' hall, and she changes into semi -
evening dress. Supper begins at a
quarter past eight, and about half -past
nine she takes leave of her hostesses
in the servants' hall.
From half -past nine to ten the house-
keeper is busy settling details far the
next day's work, and at ten she retires
for the night after a well-filled day.
' • An• Exchange -of '►erients-
It was a most successful little din-
ner party, and Daubem felt very grati-
fied that it was in his honor. All these
'celebrated ,people had been gathered
together to meet him. ' It was most
kind of his hostess, for really he was
only a humble—a very, humble, he
hoped—artist.
Benevolently he smiled round at the
gathering. For a moment he imagined
that the famous politican opposite
scowled when their gaze met, But it
could not have been at hiss. No;
the soup was a little burnt; it was un-
doubtedly at that.
Another most distracting thing was
the fact that the hostess' little son
stared constantly and persistently at
himthroughout the whole meal.'
After dinner he managed to get the
little man apart, and he asked kindly:
"You gazed at me all through din-
ner, and I feel flattered. Would you
like me to draw something for you in
your autograph -book?"
"No, sir," answered the youngster.
you."But mother said that you had a re-
ceding chin. Won't yrodo it for me
just once? And then I'll show you
how I can wiggle my ears!"
Yellow is said to have a very bene-
ficial effect upon health.
25,003 Boys Recruited to
Reforest a State.
The state of Louisiana has called
upon its boys to replant 4,000,000 of
the 12,000,000 acres which have been
denuded of forests, says an American
writer. Reforestation clubs have been
established by the state department of
conservation and, by the end of 1921,
it is expected that 25,000 boys will be
enrolled.
The call is being sent to farmers'
sons, though all boys between the ages
of 10 and 18 years are invited to join.
A large lumbering corporation of the
state has offered prizes totaling $500
annually.
It is through the "woodlot," the
vacant corner, the bit of uncultivated
deforested land on the farm, and the
farm boy's familiarity with it, that
the state hopes to lay the foundation
for the restoration of Louisiana's
forests. The state has placed a forest-
er, who formerly was connected with
the public schools, and thus is familiar
with the American boy, and methods
of teaching him, in charge of this re-
forestation plan, and has issued 5,000
copies of a bulletin describing in
simple language the trees best adapt-
ed to;the lands in various sectiozis of
the stab ; how to te1I" the g o a e'- f
..stand-
ins trees, how to plant, care for, and
protect natural forests•, as well as how
to dispose of the products of these
forests with the best financial result.
Longest Commercial Flight
in Canada.
The longest commercial passenger
flight in Canada was accomplished a
few weeks ago, when an airplane with
pilot, passenger, and mechanic, flew
from Winnipeg, Man., , to The Pas,
Sask., a distance of 487 miles. The
flying time for the trip was six hours
twelve minutes.
The long flight was made without
previous arrangements having been
made for landing grounds, gasoline,
etc. The landing at Hudson Bay Junc-
tion: had to be made in a "muskeg,"
or swamp, there being no other place,
Mid great difficulty was experienced in
"taking off," This is the first machine
to fly north of 53 deg. latitude in Sas-
katchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.
On its arrival at The Pas, tremend-
ous excitement ensued, and Indians
from afar came by the score to view
the "Thunder Bird," as one old Cree
appropriately named the machine.
Do You Follow Your intuition
"If I had only followed my first im-
pression: if 1 had only listened to
my intuition, instead of arguing my-
self into doing, something else, I might
have gotten somewhere," said a man
recently in telling of some of the un-
fortimate results et acting contrary
to his inner convictions or intuitions.
How often we hear similar expres-
sions from hien who have failed to
listen to the inner voice that said to
then: "If 1 only had clone as 1 first
thought of doing!" Or, "If 'I had only
listened to mg wife! She told Mme not
to have anything to do with that pian;
that he had a yellow streak in him;
that he wasn't straight, end would
turn out badly,"
That inner something, which hails -
bees a protest or a, warning, tells us
to no this or not to do that, is sonie-
thiug infinitely higher arid titter than
ally rea•soeing power we know of. Our
inner promptings are 11102e trust-
worthy than our reasoning faculties,
which often bring ite to unfortunate
concltisiotzs. The voice that speaks
Wei to us, what Wcall intuition, is a sort
ofspiritual sense, which doesn't stop
to reason but almost hies to a de-
cision. I It says a man is all right or
he isn't all i'igght;, if lie ismi't all right
• a. - the intuitive per. feels 11, seti50s it
busy with her account -books <nid the r
t_eisure slid i leasure itz the Evening . , intil'tion z]ercera all ti
kept :la circulation, by electrically household accounteheets that have, g because i l. zaslcs,
driven pumps, been sent up for her from the clerk of These teas are regulet fixtures, and all pretenses, goes behind ail effort to
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camouflage, to put up a good front.
It's a good impression or a bad im-
Ipression. It gives you the true, the
correct answer to your question with-
' out going through the reasoning pro-
' cess•.
This is where women have a tre-
mendous advantage over Hien. They
have a much stronger intuition, or
spiritual sense, which does not stop
to reason, but flies straight to its
nark. Men trust more to their rea-
son, and are far oftener mistaken in
their estimate of people than women.
Several times I have taken people to
my home, Men I have thought of ally-
ing myself with in different ways, to
see what niy wife thought of them,
anti when she told me to have nothing
to do with this o1• with that, that it
would turn out badly, and I have acted
against her intuition 1 made a mis-
take •every time,
Emerson says, "I believe in the still
small voice, and that voice is the
Christ within me." It doesn't matter
what we call it -sixth sense, spizitaal
geese, instinct, or what not—that n-
ner prompting is the Christ, the
divinity, the God in us. If we lived
as much tis possible in the conscious-
nese of God in our daily lives, in all
our affairs, the inner voice would be
conte an unerring guide, tallith we
could follow implicitly.• --O. 5, Marden,